Pilot Hill Beach, Patricia's birthday picnic, August 21, 2007. After two days of chilly winds and murky gray skies, and following an ever-so-brief rain shower, the northwest horizon opened up with a blazing, sun-and-cloud-filled spectacle, and as is inevitable with a bright setting sun shining through the rain-drop-filled atmosphere towards the backdrop of a dark eastern sky, the slightly-dampened, pizza and s'more-eating partyers were treated to this ages-old symbol of hope and affirmation; the cosmos surely saying, "Happy birthday, Patricia."

Pilot Hill Beach, Patricia's birthday picnic, August 21, 2007. After two days of chilly winds and murky gray skies, and following an ever-so-brief rain shower, the northwest horizon opened up with a blazing, sun-and-cloud-filled spectacle, and as is inevitable with a bright setting sun shining through the rain-drop-filled atmosphere towards the backdrop of a dark eastern sky, the slightly-dampened, pizza and s'more-eating partyers were treated to this ages-old symbol of hope and affirmation; the cosmos surely saying, "Happy birthday, Patricia."